The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge

Essays on the Transvaluation of Values

Martin Davies (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-08300-1 (ISBN)

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The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment can be seen to have lasted from the late sixteenth century to the present day.

The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself. In the course of the study, Martin Davies offers an original world-view and a critique of some recent interpretations of the Enlightenment.

Martin L. Davies is Emeritus Reader at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is the author of Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society, also published by Routledge.

Introduction: the Enlightenment: a reconception of its fate and value

1. The Enlightenment and the fate of meaning

2. The Enlightenment and the fate of history

3. The Enlightenment and the fate of knowledge

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Approaches to History
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-032-08300-X / 103208300X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-08300-1 / 9781032083001
Zustand	Neuware